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Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by boeingUH60 »

r721 wrote: post #62
r721 wrote: post #3

>Later, someone who appeared to be Airman Teixeira drove onto the property in a red pickup truck. >When Times reporters approached the house again, the truck was parked in the driveway. Airman Teixeira’s mother and a man were standing outside in the driveway. >When asked if Airman Teixeira was there and willing to speak, the man said: “He needs to get an attorney if things are flowing the way they are going right now…

Thread: https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/164657496020971930... UPD Arrest video: https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1646581173185904640

They really brought a heavily armored vehicle and came guns blazing to arrest this guy, lol

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by remarkEon »

kipchak wrote: post #72
VLM wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People who don't understand the system think leaking classified data is either James Bond nonsense or its like Trade Secrets where once the cat's out of the bag and its public it doesn't matter. Say you're arguing about the top speed of an aircraft carrier or some BS, the topic doesn't actually matter. The top speed is classified but you know what it is and its documented in writing you know what it is. You google fo…

For your last paragraph, wouldn't this also apply if you formerly had a clearance per SF-312?

Yes.

(Not OP, but the answer is yes)

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by nobody9999 »

r721 wrote: post #78
nobody9999 wrote: post #74

I just saw video on my local news that appears to be military personnel taking Jack Teixeira into custody.

This one? https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1646581173185904640

I can't see twitter. Nor do I wish to.

Is it a young guy in a brown/grey t-shirt and red shorts with his hands on his head walking backwards past what appears to be an Army truck and being handcuffed by armed folks in military garb?

If so, then yes.

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by nobody9999 »

2022-11-07 wrote: post #52
nobody9999 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Your link is a about a bitcoin case, so unless I missed something this guy wasn't doing it for money (I don't condone it, but money is a reasonable motive for committing a crime). My point was that they were both kids when they did these stupid things (with Zhong, I'm not talking about stealing bitcoin -- he thought that it would "cool" to have a suitcase full of cash and that it might impress some college coed to f…

> suitcase full of cash and that it might impress some college coed to fuck I think the sex in that story is a red herring. If you have a suitcase full of 700 grand you don't need to impressive anyone to have sex. If you have a bunch of illicit bitcoins converting that into cash also makes sense without bringing sex into it. Money makes sense as a motive. > What does your assessment as to what's reasonable have to do…

>I think the sex in that story is a red herring.

I think stuff too, sometimes. Does it hurt when you do that? It definitely does when I do.

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by reducesuffering »

boeingUH60 wrote: post #81
r721 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thread: https://twitter.com/jason_paladino/status/164657496020971930... UPD Arrest video: https://twitter.com/WCVB/status/1646581173185904640

They really brought a heavily armored vehicle and came guns blazing to arrest this guy, lol

The guy is on video shooting his own high caliber weapons , yelling racist tirades, and if he doesn't resist, about to be in prison for a long time. Feel free to go arrest him yourself with a taser and handcuffs.

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by rograndom »

ChumpGPT wrote: post #11

Would a guy in his position even have access to these documents? I'm thinking that there has to be someone who shared them or at least shared a way to gain access to them. I'm sure the FBI will be following the trail of bread crumbs to the original source. Now if it turns out he is the original source, we're in huge trouble. Because a 21 year old kid working night shift in some remote Cape Cod office for the Massachu…

I've done sub-sub-contract work for a few government and military orgs where standard procedure would be I would be mailed a thumb drive of what should just be images and word docs to add functionality to a small section of an internal website. Every single time there would be things on there, totally unrelated to the project, that I should definitely not have been given.

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by sitzkrieg »

anthonygarcia21 wrote: post #77
TurkishPoptart wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it significant that the leaks were allegedly of photographs of printouts, with visible creases, as oppposed to being straight file-dumps? Maybe photographic a printout is better for opsec as opposed to files with some sort of DLP.

It's possible that he fished the printouts out of a poorly-secured document disposal bin and then snuck them out.

everything is shredded within a proper scif so he probably reprinted or snuck out as is

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by antibasilisk »

It's pretty funny that the US has to deal with both a recruitment crisis, and the fact that the recruits they manage to get are willing to be charged under the espionage act for the sake of internet arguments. They really just can't catch a break

Re: Leader of Online Group Where Secret Documents Leaked Is Air National Guardsman

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Post by antibasilisk »

standardUser wrote: post #40
2022-11-07 wrote: post #14

This story just doesn't compute with me. A young guy (21) seemingly had access to all this information, and shared it despite being Portuguese (based on his last name) so seemingly not ethnically tied to Russia, shared it openly on Discord with his gaming club, a full document dump literally hundreds of pages not just screenshots or summaries, but not before faking some of the information, coordinated by a group that…

"Thug Shaker Central, where about 20 to 30 people, mostly young men and teenagers, came together over a shared love of guns, racist online memes and video games" Based on the above, maybe one of them was an alt-right type? A lot of the right wing in this country supports Russia.

I think you're overcomplicating it, from the accounts given of his behavior in other articles it seems like it was just a massive egotrip for him. He enjoyed the attention and clout he got from seemingly 'predicting' what was going to happen.
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